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"I made my entrance sporting a giant rainbow boa made of some kind of synthetic fabric that weighed a ton and was hot as Hades."

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#writing #dance #arts
“It felt like an alien had straddled my cranium and was sucking up whatever good stuff might exist inside my head. The thing was the very definition of a “killjoy.””

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#GratitudeEveryday #ChronicIllness
“You shouldn’t be pretty. I mean, you are, but you shouldn’t be.”

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#writing #aging #beauty
"...if you had told me 20 years ago that I would not only agree to such an excursion but suggest it, I would have told you the notion was ridiculous. And yet."

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#livingfully #embracechange
Oddness and Ends
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"I had a manager who suggested several times that I engage in some strategic surgical enhancements. I never did. I had seen a lot of boob jobs at the gym. Some of the young women looked pretty good, but many more looked mutilated."

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“Dad. You’ve lost eighty pounds in the last few months.”
 
“Well, old people lose weight. You’ve all got this wrong. I don’t have cancer. Period.”

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#life #aging #hospicecare
“Our ears and noses continue to grow as well. Getting older has some good things to offer. This is not one of them.”

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#agingoutloud #realtalk
“I think I’m going to go with suicide. It has got a nice ring to it,” I said.

She might have smiled, but I don’t know because she was wearing a mask.

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“Well, I don’t know if you should do thaaaaat.” John remarked with his trademark laconic drawl. “You are kind of clumsy. No offense.”

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#substack #rescuedog
“There was one such couple here this morning, and if we are going by appearances—and this is America, so we mostly do—they look fresh, confident, and sure-footed, while the rest of us appear shell-shocked and are scuffling about.”

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#whatmattersmost
“When I first knew him, he was a bon vivant, a man about town. He seemed to know everyone, and where the ladies were concerned, many of them intimately.”

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#substack #witandwisdom #friendship
"My response to that significant marker of age has been to load myself into a cannon and shoot myself into an orbit of constant activity. A touch of mania, perhaps?"

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#substack #witandwisdom #modernaging
"I am sure that there are clinical reasons for this, and equally sure that I do not give a fig what they are."

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#busylife #la #writing
Su presencia, discreta pero luminosa, ha inspirado a generaciones que, frente a la pantalla, hallaron en ella un faro de inteligencia, elegancia y fortaleza. 3/3

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Como actriz, directora y voz comprometida, Broderick ha tejido con sutileza una huella profunda en la historia de la televisión. 2/3
Puede que el nombre de Beth Broderick evoque, para muchos, la imagen serena y sabia de la tía Zelda en la entrañable Sabrina, la bruja adolescente, pero su legado se extiende mucho más allá de los confines de un solo papel. 1/3
“A few more years. I have promised myself that when I am 68, I can have toast.”

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#healthylifestyle #witandwisdom #BethBroderick
“Was I lucky to have drawn the Queens? Unlucky because my tablemate drew the Aces?”

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#substack #america #witandwisdom
“He threw his hands up in the air and laughed, relieved to have an explanation.”

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#california #whenlifegivesyoulemons🍋
"It all makes me wonder how old a gal has to be to come to outgrow these silly, time-wasting thoughts."

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#hollywood #showbiz #haircut
“Wow!” she said, pointing to my head.

“That noticeable?”

Jane nodded, and I told her the whole story of my morning mishap.

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#oops #showmustgoon #badhairday
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"𝐀𝐦 𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲, 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝?”

“𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝."

#supportthearts #losangeles
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"𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴."

#LAWildfires #rebuildingtogether
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"The thing I love most of all about my new kitchen is the thing he despises with a passion. It’s never easy cohabitating with another creature human or otherwise.

#newyear #moving #dogslife